Posted on 08/19/2025 12:43:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Winner of the Internet today!
Thanks for laugh.
Unless the ChiComs thought that they could blackmail the Japanese government with the info.
“Still, they are advising that if you recently purchased one of the impacted lots of Great Value raw frozen shrimp from Walmart, throw it away.”
Just throw away radioactive material?
They obviously don’t think any actually are radioactive.
Well, well, well...
Apparently nuclear forensics is a thing.
This stuff can be traced.
Are they on sale?
It is unlikely that they would try blackmail.
If the Chinese tried blackmail the Japanese would simply verify do their own testing and then make their own announcement.
Then make a plan to clean up the source and announce the plan.
It works more to the Chinese benefit to expose the Japanese failure to control the waste.
How can both of these statements from the article be true?
Officials said, at this time, no product that has tested positive or alerted for Cesium-137 (Cs-137) has entered the U.S. commerce
The FDA is warning the public about possibly radioactive shrimp that may have been sold at Walmart in 13 states.
I thought it was all farm raised now. Hos did Cs-137 get into that?
Farm raised are often more contaminated. But there is still wild shrimp.
“We’ve gotta start taking Geiger counters to the store now? Geez….”
The great contaminated milk scare from the ‘60s.
#”So, if one already has cancer, forgo radiation treatments and load up on walmart shrimp!”
Bad advice!
ping to check Dad’s freezer.
,”If these shrimp were found on the grounds of a nuclear power plant, the shrimp would be required to be disposed of as radioactive waste.”
That can’t be determined without knowing contamination levels.
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I hope I live to see the day that Walmart K-Marts it's self out of business.
Right there in the story: “ initially processed by BMS foods of Indonesia”.
Looks like the farm was in Indonesia!
Fukushima water may be the source:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X14005621
Due to their chemical properties, the 137Cs radionuclides can be soluble in seawater, which allows them to spread over long distances by marine currents and dissipate throughout the oceanic water masses (Povinec et al., 2004). Oceanic currents (e.g., the Oyashio and Kuroshio currents) will transport radionuclides quickly from the western North Pacific Coast off Japan and undergo advection and mixing (Bu et al., 2013). Pacific water that is transferred into the Indian Ocean through this association is well known as Indonesian Through Flow (ITF) (Sprintall et al., 2009). Thus, the 137Cs and 134Cs radionuclides potentially entered the Indonesian sea from Fukushima through ITF.
Is Cesium a Beta emitter? I’m not smart enough to know that, but I think not, or put another way a Geiger counter would be useless to detect.
I don’t think Geiger counters detect Cesium (or Strontium 90). Bad stuff, the latter is almost indistinguishable from Calcium in the human body, which absorbs it readily.
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